One guy he went life and death with in his prime while the guy was green and drained, not really comparable to someone he utterly destroyed after making him look a milquetoast amateur. :deal If they had a rematch now with Froch moving up to 175 he could well be stopped by Pascal, IMO.
Most of the things I've read on boxing sites regarding this fight are questioning where Bute's head is after the Froch beating. But it's not like Pascal has proved he's recovered mentally from when Hopkins schooled him- he's only been in the ring with twice since with bums. Wouldn't be shocked to see the pair of them acting like two scared rabbits for the first few rounds.
Bum is a harsh but closer to mark for Blades. Kuziemski however is quite decent and to beat him as clearly as Pascal did while injured trumps anything Bute has done since the minimal effort it took for him to dazzle an old Glencoffe with speed. Kuziemski is no worse than Grachev, and perhaps should rate higher...less powerful but a more clever and tricky fighter, probably head to head the overall more difficult for more boxers to beat.
If Pascal's game plan is to counterpunch (almost the opposite of what many people expect) and Bute wants to do the same, it could very well begin slowly.
Grachev was undefeated and took down a LHW prospect who was suppose to be the next big thing, a bit like Stevenson prior to Dawson fight. Who has Kuziemski beat ?
I'll tell you what will give him the win, his superior CHIN. Pascal knows he needs to draw Bute into a war, and will do so, and Bute is WEAK in comparison to himself, in every area. He is weaker physically, he has no chin. Pascal NEEDS to make it rough on Bute.
Bute by Decision... pascal will loose his game plan, the crowd will be chanting BUTE, just like when pascal fought blades in his last fight, the crowd was chanting butes, but bute wasnt even fighting that night...lollol pascal has a severe inferiority complex...if someone does somethhing and gets a reacton from ppl, pascal has to try to do it better...look at when bhop started doing pushups between rounds, then at tthe end of the fight he drops down to do more pushups, so what does pascal do? he drops down to try and do one handed pushups but fails miserably...atsch vs froch, pascal had a game plan, but when froch started throwign bombs, pascal started throwing as well...playing into frochs game plan if i go take a ****, pascal has to try and **** further...:deal pascal always has to show how he can be better than everyone else, because he craves the attention..he tries to show off...even i he looks like a fool doing so. pascal is the one who will play into the crowd tonight and try too hard, causing him to make a bunch of mistakes and leave bute to counter with ease.. pascal has inferiority complex, and in the dog worls its called little dog syndrome, lol Bute wins a solid 8 rounds in the fight to take a UD win.